True, Trüberbrook isn’t the first game to sport a bland protagonist – but it lacks the gameplay to make you overlook his mundanity. Most of the game’s characters are, in fact, more interesting than Hans. Instead, she’s relegated to being a secondary character despite being infinitely more interesting than Hans. I’d have found Trüberbrook significantly more palatable if I’d stayed in her shoes. This is especially apparent when you meet Gretchen again who, in comparison, actually sounds like she wants to be there. Trüberbrook’s voice acting is a real mixed bag but Hans himself sounds like he’s reading out his shopping list. But he lacks the personality traits that made Guybrush Threepwood interesting in fact, he lacks any personality at all. Playing Trüberbrook, I got the feeling that Hans was supposed to be a loveable fool in the mould of Monkey Island’s Guybrush Threepwood. But there’s no real joy in the journey – and that’s due, in part, to Hans himself. The game’s story is relatively engaging, and your quest takes you through a variety of aesthetically-pleasing locations including an retro-futuristic laboratory, an upmarket sanitarium and the town itself. Half an hour later, your curiosity will have been replaced with indifference as lovely as it is to look at, Trüberbrook is a disappointingly middling game.
What mysterious fate befell Gretchen, the woman you played as during the game’s brief prologue? And how did Hans Tannhauser, the quantum physicist now under your control, manage to win a competition he never entered? And, as you wander through the titular German town, you’ll gleefully mull over the unfolding mysteries. The mildly baffing decision to create real sets and scan them in as the game’s background pays off Trüberbrook is one of the prettiest point-and-click adventures you’re likely to play. Trüberbrook was, undoubtedly, a labour of love for its developers.
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